Storyline
In the night, someone shoots an elderly couple in their sleep with a hunting rifle, leaving their twenty-year-old son, disabled and confined to a wheelchair, an orphan. The investigation reveals the life story of what seems at first glance to be an ordinary Soviet family. While still young, the couple lost their long-desired infant daughter. Later in life, the fate gives them a child, but he happens to be a boy. The mother's pathological desire to have a daughter becomes an obsession. The woman treats Sashenka as a girl, dresses him as a girl and buys him dolls. The father supports his wife in every way. This is how starts a dramatic and astonishing story of human vices and deviations.
Cast & Crew
Dmitry Nizhelsky
Sashenka
LeadOB
Oksana Burlay-Piterova
Sasha's mom
MK
Milena Kompaniiets
Lena
Dmytro Orlov
Kolya
Victor Rybchinskiy
Sasha's dad
What People Are Saying
1.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Oleksandr Zhovna's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Sashenka is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
